Cleaning a kitchen is a good metaphor for Refactoring
Lately I’m talking a lot about refactoring. When I do, I use a lot a metaphor I have learned from Vera Peeters and Pascal Van Cauwenberghe. Refactoring is like cleaning a kitchen. If you observe the kitchen of a restaurant, you will see that they are cleaning the kitchen all the time. So cooking …
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#Interview with Bevan Williams for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa044)
Bevan was invited by Khwezi Mputa
We talked about:
-Living as a non obvious person of color
– Being asked not to use his brain
– Bevan, you read too much…
– Going to Agile Alliance in Orlando in 2017
– how that inspired him to become a conference speaker
– Scrum Alliance gathering
– ALE20xx conferences
– work-life balance vs work-life integration
– Calendar Tetris
– What is the best place to start agile?
Book:
– Who is agile the book edition
– Turn the ship around (L. David Marquet)
– How emotions are made (Lisa Feldman Barrett)
– The seven 1/2 lessons about the brain. (Lisa Feldman Barrett)
– Against empathy (Paul Bloom)
– Who is agile in South Africa